Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life–that’s just one way you’re pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

The ability to win increases when you do not fear to struggle.

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation...

No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.

Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.

But there’s nothing wrong with being scared. I think everyone’s a little scared. Even the government.

Well, she didn’t lock us up in closets.” in fact, my mother behaved much worse than that, but by focusing on the empty closet, I avoided looking at what waited beyond it.

The amount of growth you experience in your life will always be directly proportionate to the amount of love or fear you give.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

One of the Christian’s biggest fears is appearing ‘too Christian’. God forbid, because that’s often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being ‘one of them’.

Now that I have smelled you, I can face you down. Even though my body is shaking, I can keep a place free from you. I can feel you running round in my head, you...

We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands…searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living…for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another...

Wilhelm Reich identified ‘armor’ as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, ‘deadness’. Functionally...

You don’t fear for your life in the middle of a storm, you can’t really afford to,

Never fear to lose your three square meal per day if that will cause you to be a fan of the truth. Never fear to have a decrease in the number of your friends if...

It is wonderful, awesome and merrywise to see satan lose the battle to us in fear and panic and shame! Our victory is in Christ Jesus!

I love running. I’m not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.

Be courageous! Never fear to share your love.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.

Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to...

In this film, you begin to see that he has a fear of losing things, a fear of losing his mother, and as a result, he wants to begin to control things, he wants to...

Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to...

I’m more terrified of failure than rejection—so I’ll no my way to YES!

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were...

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

If you expose what it is that we’re doing, if you inform your fellow citizens about all the things that we’re doing in the dark, we will destroy you. This is what their spate of...

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

It was a nail-biter, but I can’t show any fear or my team will do the same.

always has our best interests at heart.” It is a voice that can tell us who is friend and who is foe…Which ones to hold at arm’s length…And which ones to keep close. But too...

I don’t think of faith as something you need to have in the world, or in some deity or religion or whatever; I think having faith is about trusting in yourself, and trusting that you’ll...

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy’s notion of his father.

When they find what they don’t like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they’ve ever seen.’ ‘Why?’ asked Isobel. ‘Because . . . because...

Don’t let the bonds of fear and doubt keep you from attempting the impossible. Each attempt will loosen the chains and you’ll eventually break free, thus finding the ‘impossible’ was actually possible all along.

We’re what we think we will be. What we say becomes reality, what we do not do becomes our reality.

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

Overnight, our neighbors began to look at us differently. Maybe it was the little girl down the road who no longer waved to us from her farmhouse window. Or the longtime customers who suddenly disappeared...

Get married, my friend, you don’t know what it means to live alone, at my age. Nowadays feeling alone fills me with appalling anguish; being alone at home, by the fire, in the evening. It...

I had done all that for her, and I never wanted to see her again as long as I lived.That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.

There are two types of fear:There is a fear of something that is presently before you, be it a monster under your bed or a knife welding maniac pounding his fist through your door. It’s...

Has there ever been a night where you didn’t feel safe? Maybe you felt you were being watched? Or you couldn’t close your eyes for fear of the unknown? If, for only a moment, you...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

It’s a secret code,” said Calvin. “Girls are not not like boys. If a boy wants to kill you, he says ‘I’m going to kill you.’ If a girl wants to kill you, she says,...

Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

It might be a fear. You don’t want to get embarrassed, especially at home. It’s just something where the first one went in and we seemed to get a little life.

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best...

And the answer is this: only when I have to leave you.